December 2002 Update Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Holiday Market Shoppers and holiday cheer junkies are on their mark as December arrives and Eugene’s cup of spirit begins to overflow, letting loose a multitude of events. Possibly the most anticipated by locals is the Holiday Market, an indoor holiday-themed craft smorgasbord that is the winter counterpart […] Read more

Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Museum of Natural History After the morning routine of peeking one sleepy eye through the blinds hoping for the off chance that a few clouds have declined to take their part in the regular rainy day parade, and realizing that they are all there and accounted for, it is easy to […] Read more

Picnic Spots Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Clouds lazily float across a deep blue sky. They are in no rush to get anywhere, and neither are you. A soft breeze skips through the grass, bending each blade consecutively like sports fans doing the wave. In the distance you hear a dog bark, a child’s shriek of […] Read more

October 2002 Update Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide October, a month that is usually characterized by the approach of dark foreboding clouds and the gradual appearance of umbrellas, was ushered into Eugene with spirit and warmth this year. Eugenians welcomed another wet winter with the grand reopening of Broadway Street, a main thoroughfare in the downtown […] Read more

What’s There to Do in a Eugene July? Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide So, so much. A Eugene July, for one, is actually warm. It even gets hot. We even see the sun. Sometimes, if we’re not careful, we develop skin tones that approach tans. Then the rain comes back, and we all dash inside. For […] Read more

What’s There to Do in a Eugene July? Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide By Anthony St. Clair Oregon Country Fair A long, long time ago (well, 1969), on some privately-owned Oregon land that was far, far out, a bunch of hippies decided to have a party. And not just any party, a fair. And the land […] Read more

What’s There to Do in a Eugene July? Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Mass in B Minor If you’re religious, then what I’m about to say might offend you. If you are a music student, aficionado or snob, what I’m about to say might offend you. So you’re warned, but here it: J.S. Bach’s Mass in […] Read more

What’s There to Do in a Eugene July? Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Oregon Bach Festival “I always get goosebumps at this part,” I said to my companion at the first raising of the instruments, the first notes, the dozens of voices sliding and rising into one, into the beginning of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B […] Read more

What’s There to Do in a Eugene July? Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide Art and the Vineyard The world is full of sweet combinations: bacon and eggs, beer and pizza; wine and art, festivals and parks. Every year the Maude Kerns Art Center sponsors such a great combination: Art and the Vineyard, a 3-day Friday-Sunday event […] Read more